The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

silvasava

Hester - on your journey maybe it's worth making a note of good mooring places for your return journey? It's nice to know you have a good place to moor on the way back.
Fuddle - someone once said to me as you grow up you see your parents and siblings as people and don't necessarily like them - I've realised over the years how true this is so if your sister and you have little in common other than your mother I suggest you keep contact to a minimum as you have very different values.
It's p......ersisting down here at the moment so I'm glad I got out in the garden yesterday. I'll spend part of today cleaning upstairs - sigh & then tackle DiLs curtains another sigh!

ivyleaf

Softstuff That reminds me of when I tried venison (in NZ, where it's cheaper than here) - I was underwhelmed. Tender, but didn't really taste of anything. I prefer beef too.

pollyanna Hope you managed to wash your hair and can have a rest today.

karcher and burtha thinking of you xx

fuddle I think your sister's life is rather empty so she fills it with "things". Whereas your life is filled with love. I know which I'd rather have! xx

VJsmum

I've eaten crocodile and ostrich. Had an opportunity to eat dog in S. Korea but said no thanks. Kind of wish I'd tried a bit now.

HEster - you need a shewee. Takes a little practice but I now have it down to a fine art. A large necked comfort bottle is your friend - now I know why it's called 'comfort' :rotfl:

monnagran

Morning all. Damp and dismal today so I'm back in hibernation mode.
Hester, well done on a good night's sleep, sympathies on a sore throat, (Go Suck A Zube, remember that?) and as for CHS telling you to pee in a bottle!!! Has he supplied the bottle and how wide is the neck? Words fail me, and that doesn't happen very often.

Cocketts, I was like that with my brother, and he is as kind about it as your sister is. I remember being quite horrid to him when we were young and it grieves me because he is the kindest, loveliest man. Thankfully he doesn't remember that, only the times I was kind to him - they must have been rare enough to stick in his memory.
Fuddle, I always wanted a sister, probably that's why I resented my brother so much, he was not supposed to be there, but having heard your experience I think I was lucky. I think that you and your sister come from two different planets. As for her reaction to your beautiful, thoughtful birthday present.....well.....that was just plain rude. Obviously her high-flying life style has neglected to teach her good manners.

Even on gloomy wet days life goes on and I still have half a to-do list to tackle. Better gird my loins and get going.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

What others think about you is none of your business.

nursemaggie

I think I told you all I got a new computer. I did think about a tablet as It would be useful for other things.

I could not get back onto MSE it treated me like I was a Hacker. I sent a support ticket to the Forum team and they sorted it. I wish they could sort the other websites I cannot get into.

I don't need a tablet to have monna's problems. Yesterday Google turned premise into p.e.n.i.s.

Well hopefully I have set things in motion for me joining a community of not just elderly but other ages too but no Elephants upstairs as children are not allowed to live there, so they can still visit. I have applied for a ground floor flat with a warden service. That may not matter, because DS goes to look at a 2nd floor 2 bed flat tomorrow after work, in the same community. It is low rise flats all grouped round a nice garden. All the ground floor flats are for the elderly and disabled.

The flats are in the town centre. The backs of some of them are opposite the back of the market. I hope I do get it and DS gets his. It looks really nice. It will be really handy having the market as our corner shop. I will just have to remember I need to get bread early in the morning and milk before 4 pm.

Your talk of all of your books made me very frustrated at not being able to log in. in the middle of me reading about it DS came in and said it has a storage room and a pantry. I doubt I will use the pantry I may make it into a library. No one else will want his books he will put all his Japanese ones in there.

silvasava

Everything crossed for you and your DS Nursemaggie xx

MMF007

Oh NM, that sounds fantastic! And just think, you'll be able to spot your DS's latest girlfriend coming and going before he even mentions her to you!
My only concern would be the neighbours having their telly on very loud. I often walk past sheltered accommodation in our village and I can hear Emmerdale from 1/2 a mile away :rotfl: Still, loud in an evening is much better than loud all night, eh?

Karcher, how are you? XOX

Events today, on this grey and wet day are confined to indoors so.....
Today I have strung a painting and hung it in the kitchen/diner. It looks good and tones with the colours in there. This meant I had to move the previous incumbant, which now looks splendid in the bedroom - it is a lovely felt picture of a sleeping fox that we bought from Harestanes visitor centre in the Scottish Borders. I also hung the small painting I did of a view in the Scottish Borders. I have put it at eyelevel where I can see the detail as I pass by

I now need to re-arrange some pictures in the multipurpose room. I often say that our little house is like the Tate gallery, in that we also have to rotate the displays due to insufficient wall space :rotfl:

Had a nice chat to my mum and encouraged a visit to us but she is fairly busy until July!!!

Right, lunch calls. Then a look round for things that can go to CS as part of my Spring fling.

greenbee

You need to start double-hanging MMF, with two layers of pictures on each wall. I find you either need space round pictures or to have lots of them crowded together.

nursemaggie

I would not be as sure as that MMF007 When I was a warden I had a house on the end of the flats. Sharing a wall with my bedroom we had a schizophrenic. about once a year she would have a breakdown. I would watch her winding up but I could not get her Dr. to come out. Once I had had three nights of no sleep he would finally come out and it would take another 4 or 5 days to get her sectioned.

The last time this happened The mental health team moved her to one of the general use flats near by. I was still responsible for her only I had to walk away from the scheme to see her. I could not hear her, they had put her right by the playground, she was odd even when well so the kids used to taunt her. In the end they moved her to a specialist unit where she was much better.

She was replaced in the flat next door upstairs with a man who had an addiction westerns at full blast. Thankfully my OH bought him some headphones and he accepted them as he often stayed up all night watching his videos.

The downstairs flat had a profoundly deaf 90 year old. Her TV drowned ours out so we used to watch whatever she was watching with the sound off. The snooker season was the worst.

I went in one morning and she asked if I had slept well. No I said, someone was watching snooker until 3 am. She never cottened on it was her.

The evening is the worst for DS he needs to be in bed by 6 pm as he has to get up for 2.30 am. At least he will be able to stay up a bit longer as he will have only a 5 minute walk to the bus station instead of 40 minutes. I'm sure he will not hear an old ladies TV if he is on the top floor.

MMF007

greenbee wrote: »

You need to start double-hanging MMF, with two layers of pictures on each wall. I find you either need space round pictures or to have lots of them crowded together.

Sound advice Greenbee, thanks! The main problem is that our tastes are very eclectic and hanging a colourful Caribbean abstract next to a Heaton Cooper print may not work :rotfl:
I shall take a good look at all options. My multipurpose room could take more hangings (as it were!) and DH won't get stressed if I move things round in there. He has been watching over my efforts this morning with some angst because he hates change!

Do you think Monna and the part time hermit posse will let us have a corner of the library to hang pictures??